Courtroom 302: A Year Behind the Scenes in an American Criminal Courthouse

Courtroom 302 is the fascinating story of one year in Chicago's Cook County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we see the system through the eyes of the men and women who experience it, not only in the courtroom but in the lockup, the jury room, the judge's chambers, the spectators' gallery. From the daily grind of the court to the highest-profile case of the year, Steve Bogira’s masterful investigation raises fundamental issues of race, civil rights, and justice in America.

• Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court
• Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration—and How to Achieve Real Reform
• The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies
• The Police and the Public (The Terry Lectures Series)
• Defending the Damned: Inside a Dark Corner of the Criminal Justice System
• Criminal Courts: A Contemporary Perspective
• Gideon's Trumpet: How One Man, a Poor Prisoner, Took His Case to the Supreme Court-and Changed the Law of the United States
• Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
• Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
• An Introduction to Policing